Property category: 600 books
by Stephen Fishman
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
The public domain—the body of creative works not entitled to copyright protection—is the world's greatest intellectual resource. Unfortunately, it can be extraordinarily hard to determine whether a work (or part of a work) is in the public domain. The first book of its kind, Copyright and the...
by Tony Johnson, Chris Hart
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Written from a practical standpoint, this new edition of the Stamp Duty Land Tax Handbook details how the updated legislation works in common practice. The book's examples and case studies will be highly useful to surveyors, valuers and anyone needs to be kept up to date with the application of tax...
Trademark and Unfair Competition Conflicts
Historical-Comparative, Doctrinal, and Economic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
With the rise of internet marketing and e-commerce around the world, international and cross-border conflicts in trademark and unfair competition law have become increasingly important. In this groundbreaking work, Tim Dornis - who, in addition to his scholarly pursuits, has worked as an attorney,...
Scientific Authorship
Credit and Intellectual Property in Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Tierra y Libertad
Land, Liberty, and Latino Housing
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
One of the quintessential goals of the American Dream is to own land and a home, a place to raise one’s family and prove one’s prosperity. Particularly for immigrant families, home ownership is a way to assimilate into American culture and community. However, Latinos, who make up the country’s...
Discrimination, Copyright and Equality
Opening the e-Book for the Print-Disabled
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
While equality laws operate to enable access to information, these laws have limited power over the overriding impact of market forces and copyright laws that focus on restricting access to information. Technology now creates opportunities for everyone in the world, regardless of their abilities or...
by University of Chicago Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
The University of Chicago Law Review's second issue of 2013 features articles and essays from internationally recognized legal and policy scholars. Contents include:
Article, "Property Lost in Translation," by Abraham Bell & Gideon Parchomovsky
Article, "Tiers of Scrutiny...
The Grasping Hand
"Kelo v. City of New London" and the Limits of Eminent Domain
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that the city of New London, Connecticut, could condemn fifteen residential properties in order to transfer them to a new private owner. Although the Fifth Amendment only permits the taking of private property for “public use,” the Court ruled that the transfer...
A License to Steal
The Forfeiture of Property
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Leonard Levy traces the development and implementation of forfeiture and contends that it is a questionable practice, which, because it is so often abused, serves only to undermine civil society. Arguing that civil forfeiture is unconstitutional, Levy provides examples of the victimization of innocent...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Governing Medical Knowledge Commons makes three claims: first, evidence matters to innovation policymaking; second, evidence shows that self-governing knowledge commons support effective innovation without prioritizing traditional intellectual property rights; and third, knowledge commons can succeed...
by Richard Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Competing Sovereignties provides a critique of the concept of sovereignty in modernity in light of claims to determine the content of law at the international, national and local levels. In an argument that is illustrated through an analysis of debates over the control of intellectual property law...
by Magda Raczynska
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
A pressing problem often facing commercial practitioners is how to determine the principle which would dictate when a proprietary claim is available and when it is not. This book explains the nature and structure of key interests in property in commercial transactions and analyses the incidence of...
by Philip Bowcock, Natalie Bayfield
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
This book is an introduction to Microsoft Excel™ concentrating on the program's unique application to the work of surveyors. Useful operations such as the creation of valuation tables and automation of conventional valuations are explained with the aid of step by step examples and screen-shots....
Ad Law
The Essential Guide to Advertising Law and Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
Ensuring marketers and advertisers are aware of the laws and regulations of advertising is now more important than ever. If a campaign is found to be potentially offensive, harmful, or misleading, it can 'go viral' in just the click of a mouse, and the implications of breaching those laws are likely...